Dixonius taoi Botov, Phung, Nguyen, Bauer, Brennan & Ziegler, 2015, sp. nov. ...
Zenodo, 2015
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Dixonius taoi sp. nov. Holotype: IEBR A.2014.26 collected on 2nd of June 2013 by Trung My Phung, Phu Quy Island, Phu Quy District, Binh Thuan Province, Vietnam. Paratypes: CAS 257300, IEBR A.2014.27, VNMN A.2014.4, ZFMK 96680, the same data as the holotype. Diagnosis. A small gecko with up to 44 mm SVL; 7 or 8 supralabials; 11 or 12 rows of keeled tubercles on dorsum; 21–23 ventral scale rows; 5 or 6 precloacal pores in males; a canthal stripe running from rostrum through the eye and terminating at back of head; lateral second pair of postmentals about one third to one half size of first pair; brown dorsal ground color with light yellowish/orange spots in one or two rows along flanks, and irregular bands or a reticulated network of dark marks on dorsum. Description of holotype. Adult male, snout-vent length 41.5 mm with dorsolaterally flattened body, total tail length 46.4 mm with regenerated tip (10 mm), trunk length 17.5 mm. Head longer than wide, depressed, distinct from slender neck. Head length 7.5 mm, ... : Published as part of Botov, Andreas, Phung, Trung My, Nguyen, Truong Quang, Bauer, Aaron M., Brennan, Ian G. & Ziegler, Thomas, 2015, A new species of Dixonius (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Phu Quy Island, Vietnam in Zootaxa 4040 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4040.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/241876 ...